Abstract Background Fear of Childbirth (FOC) is a common problem affecting women's health and wellbeing, and a common reason for requesting caesarean section. The aims of …
Objective To determine the prevalence of pregnancy-specific anxiety (PSA) and its associated factors among pregnant women during the three trimesters of pregnancy. Design …
P Slade, K Balling, K Sheen, G Houghton - BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2019 - Springer
Background Fear of childbirth (FOC) can have a negative impact on a woman's psychological wellbeing during pregnancy and her experience of birth. It has also been …
Background Antenatal depression and anxiety are associated with adverse obstetric and mental health outcomes, yet practicable nonpharmacological therapies, particularly for the …
Background The prevalence of fear of childbirth in pregnant women is described to be about 20–25%, while 6–10% of expectant mothers report a severe fear that impairs their daily …
Background Despite a sharp increase in the number of publications that report on treatment options for pregnancy‐specific anxiety and fear of childbirth (PSA/FoB), no systematic review …
JM Koelewijn, AM Sluijs, TGM Vrijkotte - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives The rate of interventions during childbirth has increased dramatically during the last decades. Maternal anxiety might play a role in the progress of the labour process and …
Objective to examine attitudes towards birth that may be common among young adults who have been socialised into a medicalised birth culture. Specifically, we were interested in …
MS Rose, G Pana, S Premji - BioMed research international, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Systematic reviews (SR) and meta‐analyses (MA) that previously explored the relationship between prenatal maternal anxiety (PMA) and preterm birth (PTB) have not …